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WHAT: Art exhibition: HERE TODAY, works by Mary Alice Copp WHERE: r.blitzer gallery, 2801 Mission Street, Santa Cruz, CA

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday June 3, 2022, 6-9 pm ARTIST’S Talk: Sunday June 5, 2022, 2 pm

HERE TODAY During June the r.blitzer gallery is showing twelve new paintings by Mary Alice Copp of our precious local landscape as it is today: our redwoods, eucalyptus, oaks, lagoons and lakes.

Also by Copp is a room-size mural of geometric paintings. The two bodies of work are related in their use of color, movement and dynamics. The title HERE TODAY refers not only to the subject matter, but also to Copp’s continued rapt involvement with painting after more than 55 years at the easel.

Copp’s work is in the collections of Stanford Medical School, the Harvard University Fogg Museum, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, and numerous private and public collections. Her website is MaryAliceCopp.com . ---------------------------